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The most exciting frontier in human knowledge right now is the human brain. We focus on sharing research that has a practical bent: food, exercise, sleep, memory improvement, supplements and so on. We also cover personal experiences with brain and mind training. Occasional guest writers share their perspectives on brain enhancement and scientific discovery. Enjoy!

Driving Game Enhances Senior Brain

9/7/2013

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By Paddy Kamen, Publisher, BetterBrainBetterLife.com

I love to drive and I’m an enthusiast of all things that improve cognition, so I’m excited to report that a new racecar driving 3D computer game is in development that has been proven to enhance cognition in senior players. With just 12 hours of training, those between 60 – 85 are as good or better at the game than 20 year-olds playing it for the first time.

The game is demanding, asking players to drive a racecar on a winding road, while also watching for a specific sign to show up on the side of the road. When that sign appears the player has to press a certain button. The game’s demands stress the brain and this stress response, or interference, is greater in older people. However, with just 12 hours of training, seniors gained significantly in memory and attention. The benefits were shown to last at least six months after the training stopped.

The game was created by University of California – San Franciso (UCSF) researchers.
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Adam Gazzaley, UCSF associate professor of neurology, and his team studied the brains of the players, and their work is published in Nature (Sept.4, 2013). Gazzaley is a co-founding advisor with Akili Interactive Labs, a company that is currently testing a clinical version of the game.

I can’t wait to try it! Read more here: http://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/pub/61488.php?from=247855

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Video Game Violence Good and Bad for Brain

6/20/2013

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By Paddy Kamen, Publisher, BetterBrainBetterLife.com

‘Shoot-em-up’ video games are appealing to some people and appalling to others. But are they good for the brain? Well, yes, and no.

Research on the effects of action-oriented video game playing finds a mixture of seemingly positive and potentially negative effects on the brains of players.

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How much do you see and how fast can your brain make use of that visual information? It turns out that the video-game-trained brain apparently makes more sense of visual stimuli and is able to act upon visual information faster.

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